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For those who've asked or are concerned, NekoMeowMeow's Wordpress website is gone. She says this isn't due to CR problems, but something having to do with storage or bandwidth or some such (she can explain more fully.) She's looking for a new home and I'm sure that as soon as she finds it, she'll be resuming her current projects. You can find the site she's using to park her old stuff by Googling her.

I'm not qualified to speak for her, and I'm not doing that. I'm just saying what I know from my own research and concern.

Meanwhile, let's wish her the very best luck and feel grateful for all the subs she's given us already.

Aw, so much fun, this lakorn. I'm always happy when I see that Neko has subbed a new episode of this. Neko is a subbing goddess.

I wish the ML's lip gloss wasn't so prominent, but I think that pretty often when I'm watching kdramas, too.

I only have one friend I talk about my drama watching with. I don't even bother to mention it other people--not because I feel I have to defend it or explain, but because I just don't care what their opinions about it are.
One of the reasons I love watching Asian dramas is exactly because they're subtitled. I have a hard time watching English dramas now because I've got so used to reading as I watch that simple listening is not enough.
Also, as an English major in college, I love it that Asian languages are so syntactically different from English. I super appreciate it, that I need to bring a non-Western mindset to Asian dramas, and struggling to understand the difference makes my brain better.

Thanks for the hilarious article!

There seems to be a sort of rule that once a subber starts a drama, that's it: it's theirs, whether they ever finish it or not, so then a different subber never comes along and finishes a drama someone else started. No matter how much people wish it would be finished.
I'm always extremely grateful for the work subbers do, and would never take their work for granted, but a different side of my head--the one that's a jerk--just is extremely disappointed and annoyed when a subber quits half way.

That's the way it is with Jdramas. Someone subs one or two episodes of a drama you really wanted to watch, and then the subber goes away, living their life or something, while you wait and wait, losing hope that the subber will ever finish. Until you are dead.

I have to wait until people write about the ending. It's really provoking to watch a drama for 50 or 70 episodes, to like it or worse, really like it, only to have the drama's writers ruin the whole thing with a sad, illogical, rushed or vague ending.

Which has nothing to do with your article, which was lovely.

Always excited when there's a new place to watch dramas. The collapse of Dramafever made me never take it for granted, that I'll be able to watch these shows. I'm glad they're here. (I'd be even gladder if they were streaming content that wasn't widely available on Youtube.) The site is useful as an aggregator but I hope the site eventually adds new content.

I liked "Another Oh Young" quite a lot, and I've watched it several times.
I loved the 2nd couple. She was deliciously quirky yet strong, and Kim Ji Suk was her perfect counterpoint.

Thanks for this article. Love the title of it ;-)

I love articles about strong women in Asian drama. There are so few.
You did a nice job.

The way a show begins and ends is everything. If a show ends badly, the audience will stay pissed about the way the show ended FOREVER. In that regard, if a show ends badly, the show is ruined. Whether or not the rest of the show is cheap, silly or lazy matters, too--but often, if the rest of the show is truly cheap, silly or lazy, people didn't stick around to find out how the show ends.

Why? Why, why, why show? Why didn't you continue to deliver the fun, funny, romantic episodes that characterized 80% of this drama?

I really haven't been so disappointed in a show's ending like this since "Princess Agents".

Do Chinese audiences really prefer shows like this, where the last few episodes of a long drama completely change the tone of the whole thing? Do Chinese audiences really want their dramas to end like this? Am I just spoiled by the Western idea that "romance" means a HE? I've watched enough Cdramas to never be surprised when a Cdrama has a stupid/bad/sad/vague ending, but I still manage to be disappointed, over and over again.

(Comically, as I was nearing the end of the drama while I was watching it on Viki, the overall rating of the show started to slide, until the rating nearly fell off the cliff. I knew before I ever watched the end of the show that viewers were pretty pissed about the ending, and that's without reading a single word about how the show ends.)

It couldn't be done now. It couldn't be done in 5 years. Even if you get a new generation of writers to write it, they couldn't get a show about women't sex lives past the censors--even if South Korean audiences wanted a show like that. Which they really don't.

It is profoundly contrary to Kdrama.

You can make a show about a bunch of girlfriends living in an exciting city (its been done, over and over and over) and you can have the show be about their relationships with their boyfriends and jobs and families.

What you can't do is make a show about a bunch of girlfriends sex lives, and that's what Sex and the City was about.

Sex and the City can be maladapted as a Kdrama. It's a terrible idea. Sex and the City is an American show whose central premise is the sexual attitudes and behaviors of its characters, in the backdrop of the most (or 2nd most, if it's not your city) exciting city in the country.

South Korea, with the 2nd lowest birthrate in the world, is not a country that particularly celebrates women's sexual ownership (which is to say they don't at all), and it's far too patriarchal and hierarchal to put up with a show where women characters do much more than kiss like Park Shin Hye.

I can't believe you did all that research and wrote this article and then we got to read it. Thank you so much!

Featuring Lee Da Hae (who really should have known better) as the typical Cdrama FL who is innocent and naive to the point where her character is of virtually sub-normal intelligence (and that's even if you're willing to ignore that the writers gift the character with "math phobia" har har) and whose noble idiocy is so galactic you may wonder how she's managed to avoid living sainthood and

A second FL who is so spoiled and childish, no male character in the world could be reasonably expected to have anything remotely like sexual feelings about her and

A third FL who is a dishonest narcissist who lies and tricks her way into the ML's feelings (but his character is so weak, so wavering and spineless, you can be forgiven for thinking that he deserves what's coming to him.) and

Writing that is so bad, the writers give you a scene where the FL has just gotten out of the hospital BECAUSE SHE MIGHT GO BLIND, and the two ML's argue about who is entitled to have her while SHE'S STANDING THERE GETTING READY TO FAINT. (Sorry about the yelling.)

Do Chinese audiences want female characters like this?

This drama has everything you hate about Cdramas (unless that's the stuff you like Cdramas for.)

Don't. Just don't.

This may not be the worst drama ever written. Maybe. But it's a strong contender.

Viki licensed this, and it's being subbed now.

I love to be included in people's drama watching families!

Is this the 3rd remake of this lakorn? I know I've watched at least one version of this.